The World - News from Aug. 3, 1988
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Documents found in the Sikhs’ Golden Temple of Amritsar revealed a plot to kill Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Home Minister Buta Singh, the Times of India reported. The documents, seized after the Indian army assault on the temple in May, also implicated Pakistan in aiding and arming the Sikh militants in Punjab, the newspaper said. Indira Gandhi, Rajiv’s predecessor, was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards in 1984.
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